28 Days Later

Rating: Null/10 (18 December 2004)

28 Days later,from the outset is about a rage virus, and the horror of the decimation it brings, and poor Jim's attempts to weather the storm of rabid carnage left in the wake.However, despite the large plot holes in the script, Alex Garland and Danny Boyle were trying to make a point. The virus wasn't causing this chaos as such, but bringing to the surface the vile,ravenous bloodthirsty base urges within all of us.The rage is a virus, but only metaphorically- in the form of an increasingly angry,violent society...that people aren't really as civilised as they would like to think, and that anyone could go mad with rage and that the real horror of this film was in the blood red grotesqueness of human nature- not some mutant super-virus. Truly scary and disturbing in that respect.A true horror film.